Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Glazunov - The Seasons 52

Glazunov - The Seasons
Alexander Glazunov (1865 - 1936)
There was a Russian composer, music teacher and conductor. He was a child prodigy Rimsky-Korsakov, Glazunov, who said the musical instruments of the day did not increase the hours and hours a day, but it does not teach privately. And age 16 at the age of eleven in 1881, in composing his first symphony was premiered works and it's one year later.

Glazunov 1899 became a professor of St. Petersburg conservatory would be on the organization's director from 1905 to 1930. After the Russian Revolution, Glazunov, and a new regime to fund itself for the sake of the students refused to luxurious accommodations. After the revolution of the hard times because of a personal interest in the welfare of students. Many of the students he had taught, and the help of Dmitri Shostakovich. He is up to Russia in 1928, while on tour, he went to Europe and the United States as a conductor and lecturer. He settled in France, but did not return to Russia, there are 1936 deaths.

The 1899 season was a ballet written by Glazunov. It is choreographed by Marius Petipa, a law, and four in the text. It was premiered in 1900 in St. Petersburg. Gift for orchestral color and tone to the Glazunov music that show his talent to use for a large orchestra. This is a lighter, more lyrical style than his book, written by and remains the most accessible and popular compositions.

Ballet for a summary:
Tableau 1 - a winter landscape
Frost, snow, sleet and snow, ice, a band who amuse themselves with, and his companions were surrounded by the winter. The two gnomes, write, and soon assembled a force that causes the light to fade.

Tableau 2 - a cross covered with flowers
Westerly wind, flower fairies, and enchanted spring chicken dance. The sun is feeling the heat on, the assembly takes flight.

Tableau 3 - flowing fields of wheat in a landscape
Cornflowers and poppies blooming in the sun and heat. After the rest of their enterprise. The Naiads appear, refresh the water level, and corn dance of the spirit of thanksgiving. Satyrs and Fauns, enter their pipes playing, and stop trying to carry the corn of the soul, but he was rescued by the Zephyr's wind turbines.

Tableau 4 - Autumn in a landscape
Autumn trees in a memorable season to cheer on their home when the rain dance (the famous "autumn bacchanale") to take part.

Apotheosis - the dark sky
Constellations sparkle on the big world

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